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- 14,527 total cases of COVID-19 in Contra Costa County.
- 1,116 active cases of COVID-19 in Contra Costa County.
- 100 new cases of COVID-19 in Contra Costa County.
- 71 COVID-19 patients are currently hospitalized in Contra Costa County.
- 13,225 people have fully recovered from COVID-19 in Contra Costa.
- 108 of the 186 deaths were in long-term care facilities.
- There are currently 27 active outbreaks of COVID-19 at Contra Costa County long-term care facilities.
- There are currently 148 occupied ICU beds in Contra Costa County. 27 of those are occupied by COVID-19 patients. 56 ICU beds are currently available.
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The population of Contra Costa County is about 1.1-million.
Folks, the statewide metrics listed above is still not up to date…California Department of Public Health shows statewide metrics as 7 day positivity rate at 4.1%, 14 day as 4.8%. This outdated information is so misleading to the public! See for yourself…
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR20-221.aspx
@Sancho Panza – From what I recall, the state intentionally uses the numbers from about three weeks earlier to give the labs and other systems/processes time to get all of the numbers in. At present the state is using data from the week of 8/12/20 to 8/18/20. For metrics that need two weeks of data they are using 8/5/2020 to 8/18/20.
See https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/COVID19CountyMonitoringOverview.aspx though that paid does not explain why they use “old” data.
That page, not paid…
It’s encouraging to see the number of covid-19 patients in the hospital now down to the lowest count since July 9.
It’s definitely good to see the numbers of hospitalized patients going down. Unfortunately, the governor’s shiny new tier system only considers number of cases and positivity rates. We’ll be locked down for a long time to come, and many more businesses will die.
Get your Covid-19 test kits…IN 2018
https://wits.worldbank.org/trade/comtrade/en/country/ALL/year/2018/tradeflow/Exports/partner/WLD/nomen/h5/product/902780
@Anon—interesting link! So, makes you wonder if COVID-19 should be called COVID-18 given the medical kits, supplies and apparatuses bought throughout the world..
These supplies are basic diagnostic tools that can be used in diagnosing various viral outbreaks and other medical conditions. You specifically linked to product inventory number 902780, which is a Colorimetric end tidal CO2 detector. It even says CO2 detector on the webpage that you linked to.
The webpage even says that this inventory was for “previously existing medical devices”. These machines existed before Covid-19. These machines were not intentionally produced for Covid-19.
The item you linked to is not a Covid-19 test kit. The product you linked to is a medical device that measures carbon-dioxide levels of a patient.
The people at WITS made notes in their inventory database on which items can be applied to diagnosing and monitoring Covid based on recommendations from health organizations. The notes are attached to the product inventory codes, but these notes appear on any year in the inventory, because the notes are attached to the item. So even if you go back and look at inventory numbers of previous years, that Covid-19 note still appears, because it is linked to the item code regardless of the year code.
Just read a story about a woman who tested positive for Xi Corona Virus in Tennessee. She died in February and tested positive in June. Her son had to argue with the Health Department, and finally went to the Press to clear this up.
This is just one of the reasons I call B.S. on the entire Cower-in-Place industry, and believe me, it is an industry. Just ask Amazon!
One of the guys, either Armstrong or Getty on the Armonstrong an Getty show, said that his wife has two friends who had registered to be tested for Covid, but for one reason or another didn’t get the test. They both got notices in the mail that they tested positive.
One wonders, how often does this happen? And since the state rules now are based totally on cases and positivity rates, it seems rather important to have accurate counts of cases.
@chuckie – this is possible based on how the data is reported. At present the “new case” of COVID-19 date is the date a sample was tested in the lab. Someone died in February. In June doctors or heath authorities are wondering if perhaps that person died had COVID-19. They send a sample off to a test lab who will report a new case of COVID-19 in June in their report to the state.
I don’t know about other states but California will soon be changing their “new case” dates from the date the sample was tested to the date it was collected.
Always batting cleanup. Unbelievable
Funny, as soon as hospitalizations trend quickly downward, suddenly a new metric is inserted showing the county is purple and to be very afraid.
Hospitalizations don’t count at all anymore. It’s all about numbers of cases and the positivity rate of those tested. Looking at the requirements to move from one tier to a less restricted tier, it will be for freakin’ ever before CoCo county and other purple counties will be very take a breath in freedom.
There doesn’t have to be a delay in getting Covid test results. I got a drive through test Saturday morning in the Kaiser Martinez parking lot in prep for a doctor visit this week. The test result, (negative), was waiting for me the next morning on the Kaiser website.
@Mr. Major of Claycord – would it be possible to still report the number of daily tests? Thank you